Try one of these ideas:
1. Create beginning of the year bulletin boards
2. Instead of having kids write what they did this summer or asking them, have them create a wordle - with a few parameters, such as: who did you spend time with this summer, what was your favorite activity, where did you go, what is your favorite subjects in school, etc.
3. List words that show how you feel about starting a new year, what topics would you like to discuss, where would you like to take a field trip, etc.
4. Create in teams a wordle of the six pillars of character education and generate words and famous people who exhibited that character. (TeRRiFiCC - Trustworthy, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, Citizenship)
5. After reading a lit. book, create a wordle about that book: must include 2 prepositional phrases, at least 5 nouns, an exclamation etc. Or figurative language
6. Put a URL in from a site with RSS and it will generate the wordle from tha
7. Social Studies: then and now - take your town and compare it from 1900 to today - put the terms together (with a tilde in between) - model a’s~SUV’s; (govt) name of Mayor then~mayor now; gas price then~gas price now;
8. FACS - names of fabrics
9. Science: wildlife in our area: insects, arachnids, snakes (Yuck), types of deer, types of varmints, birds; This would be really neat to share with a school in another country. Might cause them to do some research to find out ‘What are prairie dogs?’
10. Characteristics of an ideal classroom. Wouldn’t this be fun? Have students generate their own wordle of an ideal classroom. Use their ideas to create an ideal classroom.
11. Students could create a wordle at the end of the week just describing their week using a mixture of nouns, adjectives, and verbs!
12. Type the word FRACTION several times- where do you see fractions, what do they represent, etc.
13. Take a place you’ve been, like Phoenix - describe it with adjectives, name places you’ve been to there - like restaurants, shops, etc.
14. Take an adjective - like AWESOME - type it several times so it is the most obvious word - then add words of objects, places, events, etc that are awesome.
15. Use it as a brainstorming tool.
16. Students create a book jacket over the literature book they read. They must put a wordle on the cover with the most important words in the book, including the main characters, the setting, descriptive words, anything else outstanding in the book.
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Woo Hoo #1!Hall Davidson will be coming to Kansas to be the Keynote speaker at the March MACE Conference in Manhattan on March 5th, 2009. Mark your calendars for this conference and be sure to sign up early as this conference usually reaches maximum attendance. Woo Hoo #2!Justin Karkow, our regional account manager, along with other Discovery personnel and STAR educators, will be providing a “Day of Discover” on March 4th, 2009 as a pre-conference event.
Mark your calendar now and get your leave requests in early for March 4, 5, and 6, the MACE Conference and Discovery Education, great PD coming to Kansas! Comment 1Post CommentShare ThisJune 29
Category: **Professional keep current on education issues. Following are a few blogs that I have found helpful when trying to infuse 21st Century Skills into my classes.
2¢ Worth - Teaching & Learning in the new information landscape: David Warlick
Weblogg-ed - Learning with the Read/write Web: Will Richardson
Expanding the Boundaries of Learning: Alan November
Thinking Stick: Jeff Utecht
Practical Theory - A view from the classroom: Chris Lehman
Teach42 - Education and Technology Blog: Steve Dembo
Moving at the Speed of Creativity: Wesley Fryer
Newly Ancient - A 14 year old talks educational technology: Arthus Other educational blogs that provide great teaching with technology ideas.
The Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Vicki Davis
Kaffeeklatsch: Kathy Schrock
Tech4Teachers - Technology Tools and Lesson Ideas for Teachers: Dennis Grice
A Chat with Mary . . .a blog for teachers: Mary Frazier
Bud the Teacher - Inquiry and reflection for better teaching: Bud Hunt
Media Matters: Hall Davidson
Digital Storytelling: Joe Brennan
The Fischbowl - A staff development blog for teachers exploring constructivism and 21st century learning skills: Karl Fisch
Cliotech - The musings of an educator and professed webinerd in a flattening world: Jennifer Dorman
James Hollis blogs about the Smart Board: James Hollis
The Infinite Thinking Machine - Ideas to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st Century: Steve Hargadon
Technology Integration made simple: Jennifer Gingrich
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Try one of these ideas:
1. Create beginning of the year bulletin boards
2. Instead of having kids write what they did this summer or asking them, have them create a wordle - with a few parameters, such as: who did you spend time with this summer, what was your favorite activity, where did you go, what is your favorite subjects in school, etc.
3. List words that show how you feel about starting a new year, what topics would you like to discuss, where would you like to take a field trip, etc.
4. Create in teams a wordle of the six pillars of character education and generate words and famous people who exhibited that character. (TeRRiFiCC - Trustworthy, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, Citizenship)
5. After reading a lit. book, create a wordle about that book: must include 2 prepositional phrases, at least 5 nouns, an exclamation etc. Or figurative language
6. Put a URL in from a site with RSS and it will generate the wordle from tha
7. Social Studies: then and now - take your town and compare it from 1900 to today - put the terms together (with a tilde in between) - model a’s~SUV’s; (govt) name of Mayor then~mayor now; gas price then~gas price now;
8. FACS - names of fabrics
9. Science: wildlife in our area: insects, arachnids, snakes (Yuck), types of deer, types of varmints, birds; This would be really neat to share with a school in another country. Might cause them to do some research to find out ‘What are prairie dogs?’
10. Characteristics of an ideal classroom. Wouldn’t this be fun? Have students generate their own wordle of an ideal classroom. Use their ideas to create an ideal classroom.
11. Students could create a wordle at the end of the week just describing their week using a mixture of nouns, adjectives, and verbs!
12. Type the word FRACTION several times- where do you see fractions, what do they represent, etc.
13. Take a place you’ve been, like Phoenix - describe it with adjectives, name places you’ve been to there - like restaurants, shops, etc.
14. Take an adjective - like AWESOME - type it several times so it is the most obvious word - then add words of objects, places, events, etc that are awesome.
15. Use it as a brainstorming tool.
16. Students create a book jacket over the literature book they read. They must put a wordle on the cover with the most important words in the book, including the main characters, the setting, descriptive words, anything else outstanding in the book.
Thanks to Mary Frazier for some great ideas. Do you have more? Please post in the comments section.
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Hall Davidson coming to Kansas!
Category: **Professional Development**Woo Hoo #1! Hall Davidson will be coming to Kansas to be the Keynote speaker at the March MACE Conference in Manhattan on March 5th, 2009. Mark your calendars for this conference and be sure to sign up early as this conference usually reaches maximum attendance.
Woo Hoo #2! Justin Karkow, our regional account manager, along with other Discovery personnel and STAR educators, will be providing a “Day of Discover” on March 4th, 2009 as a pre-conference event.
Mark your calendar now and get your leave requests in early for March 4, 5, and 6, the MACE Conference and Discovery Education, great PD coming to Kansas!
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Category: **Professional keep current on education issues. Following are a few blogs that I have found helpful when trying to infuse 21st Century Skills into my classes.2¢ Worth - Teaching & Learning in the new information landscape: David Warlick
Weblogg-ed - Learning with the Read/write Web: Will Richardson
Expanding the Boundaries of Learning: Alan November
Thinking Stick: Jeff Utecht
Practical Theory - A view from the classroom: Chris Lehman
Teach42 - Education and Technology Blog: Steve Dembo
Moving at the Speed of Creativity: Wesley Fryer
Newly Ancient - A 14 year old talks educational technology: Arthus
Other educational blogs that provide great teaching with technology ideas.
The Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Vicki Davis
Kaffeeklatsch: Kathy Schrock
Tech4Teachers - Technology Tools and Lesson Ideas for Teachers: Dennis Grice
A Chat with Mary . . .a blog for teachers: Mary Frazier
Bud the Teacher - Inquiry and reflection for better teaching: Bud Hunt
Media Matters: Hall Davidson
Digital Storytelling: Joe Brennan
The Fischbowl - A staff development blog for teachers exploring constructivism and 21st century learning skills: Karl Fisch
Cliotech - The musings of an educator and professed webinerd in a flattening world: Jennifer Dorman
James Hollis blogs about the Smart Board: James Hollis
The Infinite Thinking Machine - Ideas to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st Century: Steve Hargadon
Technology Integration made simple: Jennifer Gingrich
What blogs do you read?
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